2) Paralympic snowboarders will be just as good as able-bodied athletes. And in some cases better

Rapid advances in prosthetics will be a game changer for adaptive snowboarders. Before long able-bodied athletes may look to enhance their bodies with bionic parts, as Wired reports here: “The future of sport…may well involve competing manufacturers helping athletes square off in a sort of Robocop games. “People have always thought the human body is the ideal,” Hugh Herr of MIT, himself a bilateral amputee, once told ESPN. “It’s not.””

4) The super rich will ride more powder than you

Powder will be privatised. Guests at exclusive hotels already get access to the slopes before other guests on powder days in places such as Breckenridge. Expect this to become more widespread, with lift passes priced according to demand. Some resorts will be closed to all but the super rich, while others will make some of their best slopes private.

5) Though we will man our own heli drones to find powder

And call them our “Xaviers”.

7) We’ll ride powder at night and it will be the best thing ever

Not by using LED suits though, it will be thanks to the evolution of night goggles like these. We’ll charge through whiteouts too, and foggy pea soup days will suddenly be awesome.

8) People will ride mountains like real life 90s video games

Augmented Reality Goggles, which we already almost have thanks to RideOn, will turn the mountains into a 90s video game, and resorts will build skate bowls, extra hits and super random features all around the slopes as result.

Kids who’ve only ever snowboarded in Virtual Reality games will be the twitchiest cats on the mountain and they’ll cry every time they slam. Other kids will teach their pet robots to snowboard and deliberately smash them into other robots in the half pipe.

9) Cloud seeding will produce perfect powder

But no resort will admit to adding toxic chemicals such as silver iodide to clouds.

11) We will print our own snow kit

Though it might look a bit shit. 3D printing and snowboarding is a topic Whitelines first looked into here.

12) Airbag jackets and beanie helmets will amp up rider protection

Super tech smart clothing will include soft beanies that turn rock hard like a helmet when you hit the deck, jackets with airbag technology to cushion your fall, and heat responding threads which will adjust their thickness according to your core temperature readings. Where we’re going, we won’t need layers. Gaiters may also give us a blast of oxygen if we’re starting to show signs of altitude sickness.

13) Wild resorts with zero tech will be the place to ride

If you ride tech-free at a regular resort it’ll feel like everyone on the mountain is in on some big joke you don’t know the punchline for so you’ll hit up one of the few designated wild resorts. Some of these will be reserved for the super rich but others will be under the radar, secret spots you can only ride if you pass a snowboard ability test or if you can produce an actual lift ticket from the early 00s, so best hang on to those coat hanger-style things and stickers…

These wild resorts will be some of the few places on earth where you can escape the hum of drones and phones and the gaze of prying satellite eyes. Here there will be no robots. No plugged-in zoned out snowboarders. The powder will be pure and deep. It’ll make you feel real, and it’ll make you feel alive. Just like it always did.

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